Visitor Policy
You're more than welcome to come visit here upon making an appointment; however, we don't allow visitors inside our private residence. We have a reception area to receive visitors and to show puppies to prospective new families. There are many, many reasons for this but we will only share a few with you now.
The first is health and safety of our puppies. Their immune systems are immature and extremely vulnerable. Most everything that can harm them is invisible, and is can be tracked in on peoples' clothing and shoes. We have no way of knowing where people have been before coming here and what they may be bringing in. Have they been to a public park? Another breeder's? A pet supply store? Walmart? The parvo virus is so deadly, and such a danger, that they are vaccinated for it every other week until they are 14 weeks old. It is our job to protect our babies. Not just the one you would be wanting to meet, but every other puppy that has a family anxiously waiting to bring theirs home.
The second is also health and safety, specifically of puppies with families waiting for them. We shelter and protect them as much as possible. We never allow people to meet puppies that have already been reserved. There is nothing to be gained for you, and it potentially exposes them to unnecessary risk. Imagine having to tell a family that the puppy for whose arrival they've been preparing for weeks, the puppy their children have already named, has died from an upper respiratory infection from being handled by someone who did not know they were sick, shook hands with someone sick, picked up the infection from a dollar bill at the gas station, or who knows what. We've had that conversation. We take whatever measures possible to never have it again.
The next is safety again, but that of our dogs and ourselves. We would be opening our home to many, many people a year. People we know nothing about. It would be foolhardy to open ourselves and our home up to literally countless strangers we know nothing about. This includes photos and videos inside our home, as that information could potentially open ourselves up to a sinister character. Several years ago, a breeder had a litter of puppies. A couple came to "look at puppies". The following evening, while she was at work, they returned to her home. They held her 13 year old daughter up at knife point, put all the puppies in a backpack and luckily left without harming the girl or the adult dogs. A few years ago, a fellow breeder was found murdered in her home in Kansas. She was showing puppies to "a potential buyer". Opening her home cost her her life. While these cases may sound extreme, it happens all the time, all over the country. One breeder I know has visitors sign and send back an agreement that gives consent for her to run a background check on them before scheduling with them, and verifying that they know and understand that her's is not a gun free home and that they should consider that before bringing children on their visit. It is terribly sad, but this is the world we are living in today!